Question
Compare Aristotle's and MacIntyre's Virtue Ethics.
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Aristotle and Alasdair MacIntyre are among the most influential proponents of virtue ethics, but MacIntyre reformulates Aristotle’s theory for the modern world. For Aristotle, the ultimate aim of human life is eudaimonia (flourishing or living well). Virtues are stable dispositions that enable a person to act according to reason and achieve this highest good. Moral virtues such as courage, temperance, and justice are acquired through habituation, while intellectual virtues are developed through education. Aristotle’s ethics is teleological: every human being has a natural purpose, and virtues help realize that purpose. The “golden mean” is central, where virtue lies between excess and deficiency. MacIntyre accepts Aristotle’s emphasis on virtues and human flourishing but argues that modern moral discourse has become fragmented because it has lost a shared
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